Solutions Pet Products, LLC

11/24/2025

These are some of the most common questions we get regarding our Restorative Diet Guides!

❓ How long will it take to see results?

The amount of time it takes to see results is heavily dependent on your pet’s existing circumstances. Your pet may be switching from a high heat processed diet and/or toxic environment. Or your pet may have a “cleaner” base, which will result in less detoxification time. �

Maximum results are often not achieved for 3 months or more. This time may increase dramatically if processed foods remain in the diet. Supplements alone will usually not resolve imbalances. Contributing to a health problem with poor diet while treating it with a supplement will only result in moderate benefits.

❓ Will a Restorative Diet Solution effect my pet's weight?

We certainly expect our diets to positively affect body composition - sometimes this can result in weight loss or gain, but not always. As with all other mammals, your pet’s muscles weigh more than their fat. Even in an obese pet, weight gain is not bad if it is occurring because muscle is gained.

When discussing healthy body compositions, it is more useful to speak in terms of “fat loss” or “muscle gain” rather than lumping these terms into the vague “weight loss/gain”.

❓ Can I add or substitute other foods?

Since our Restorative Diet Solutions are carefully calculated and measured using Solutions Pet Products foods, we cannot speak to what results you may achieve using substituted products.

If you are concerned about transitioning your pet to our foods, or have had trouble doing so, please email [email protected] and we can guide you through the process.

❓ My pet always seems hungry! Should I increase how much I'm feeding?

Solutions Pet Products suggests feeding the correct number of calories for your pet. This is calculated based on weight, age, reproductive status, body composition, and daily activity level. Research shows that overfeeding contributes to metabolic diseases (such as cancer, diabetes, and dementia), diarrhea, or weight problems.

Solutions suggests optimizing nutrient absorption by supporting the microbiome and providing the most bioavailable nutrient sources. Increasing caloric volume beyond what is recommended may negatively impact health. We suggest you follow the relevant Restorative Diet precisely in order to achieve the desired results. For help determining feeding amounts, use our Restorative Diet Feeding Calculator on our website (https://solutionspetproducts.com/restorative-diets-calculator/)

Using food to treat chronic health issues can be challenging and can take time - deep healing often requires patience and dedication. We are here to guide you and support you on your journey, as you guide and support your pet.

For the complete FAQ document, check out the Restorative Diet Guide page on our website (https://solutionspetproducts.com/restorative-health-guides/) ✌🏻

11/21/2025

Happy Birthday, Jacqueline. We will always love you ❤️

11/08/2025

Chelsea explains what's special about our Raw Goat Milk Cheese!

Chelsea explains how to use our raw goat milk cheese, DOGh

11/04/2025

Hey! We've got something really special for you guys to celebrate the end of an incredible year.

As many of you know, this company was born from necessity - an intervention for farmers who were on the verge of losing everything. Beautiful family farms with long legacy of supplying healing foods for their communities and our pets - when we were sitting around the kitchen table discussing ways we could help, we never anticipated that we would be supported so fervently by YOU.

This year has seen some aggressive lows - things out of any of our control that impact our daily lives in ways we may not fully recognize. It's been full of teaching moments and learning curves and self inflicted wounds. It's also been full of beauty and abundance and moments of magic. To celebrate, to support, as thanks, in recognition - we are happy and proud to offer 25% off our Cultured Raw Goat Milk at participating retail locations.

RETAILERS: Many of you may be aware of this already, but if you are not, please reach out to [email protected] for participation details.

CUSTOMERS: If your retailer is not aware of this, or chooses not to participate, please reach out to [email protected] for options or "solutions" (hah hah).

Once again, we cannot overstate our thanks - for your support and your patience and your passion. We will always be proud of our community, our farms, and our family.

10/29/2025

How much does it cost to feed our foods?? Despite a higher than average sticker price, our diets are actually more affordable than the average raw pet food due to the nutrient availability enhanced by fermentation. Totals in this graphic are accounting for a moderately active, normally healthy, 50lb dog.

You can find out exactly how much to feed, and how much per month our foods will cost you, by using the Feeding Calculator on our website (https://solutionspetproducts.com/feeding-calculator-how-much-should-i-feed-my-pet-dog-food-obesity-in-dogs-fresh-calories-overweight/) ✌🏻

10/24/2025

Taurine is an essential amino sulfonic acid for cats and increasingly recognized as a conditionally essential nutrient in dogs, especially in cases of cardiomyopathy, reproductive failure, or retinal degeneration. While concern about taurine levels in commercial diets has increased since the FDA's now-paused investigation into diet-associated dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), much of the taurine conversation has focused on the wrong data: label guarantees, formulation software, and supplementation.

NATURAL TAURINE: Taurine is only found in animal based foods - it is not present in plants. Some animal based foods have more taurine than others - beef heart and chicken heart, for example, are very high. Egg yolk contains some but not very much. Proper formulation and sourcing are key determining factors in proper taurine amounts.

TESTING LIMITATIONS: Most pet food formulation software builds nutritional profiles using standard ingredient databases, such as USDA or food manufacturer data. However, these databases are often missing values for taurine, so the ingredient is treated as having 0 mg taurine—even if it likely contains some. As a result, pet food companies may formulate diets using heart, dark meat, and organ meats, but the software will falsely report these diets as low in taurine. Unless the final batch is lab-tested, the guaranteed analysis may significantly underestimate actual taurine content.

MISLEADING LABELS: Taurine is a water-soluble, sulfur-containing amino acid that degrades with heat and
leaches out into cooking water, which is often discarded. Notably, most manufacturers do not test taurine levels after processing - only the amount added to the raw formulation - meaning there is no distinction between pre- and post-processing levels on labels, making guaranteed taurine values misleading.

SYNTHETIC TAURINE: Most commercial taurine is synthesized from ethylene oxide (derived from petroleum) and sodium bisulfite, creating a chemically pure but isolated compound. There currently is no long-term, species-specific research that validates it as safe for long term feeding. Many MSDS sheets state: “No data available for reproductive toxicity, bioaccumulation, or long-term exposure in mammals.”

In truth, the best way to ensure sufficient taurine in a pet’s diet is not to rely on the numbers, but to rely on the ingredients.

At Solutions Pet Products, we use traditional, controlled fermentation techniques that not only preserve taurine but may also enhance its bioavailability through enzymatic breakdown of proteins. Our fermentation methods avoid the high heat and aggressive processing seen in many commercial foods, maintaining the integrity of delicate nutrients like taurine while adding the digestive and immune benefits of live probiotics and postbiotics. This makes our foods uniquely suited to support species-appropriate nutrient intake without relying on synthetic amino acid fortification.

The variability of taurine based on ingredient sourcing, processing, and handling methods means that one batch of food may test high in taurine and the next, using the exact same recipe, may not. Long-term nutrient sufficiency should be based on ingredients, ingredient sourcing, and processing known to be naturally rich or gentle, not isolated test data or software estimates.

10/21/2025

Pasture music ❤️

The environments from which our ingredients come are almost more important than the ingredients themselves. Healing food cannot come from a sick animal or from malnourished plants and these cannot be cultivated without a thriving, symbiotic ecosystem.

Very famously, the conventional models of raising “commodity” animals, such as cows, chickens, pigs, and fish, are depleting natural resources at an astonishing rate. They also create optimal breeding grounds for viruses, parasitic microorganisms, and toxic molds. Food in these systems is designed to produce high “yield” - to cause an animal to grow as rapidly as possible - rather than to nourish and build a functioning body. These animals, which are raised in a contaminated and inappropriate environment, are not allowed to develop adequate immune systems. They are sick and have no mechanism to protect themselves. ��

Contrastingly, the environments from which we source are optimized for natural symbiosis rather than for huge yields. Animals are treated as living beings instead of as numbers on a spreadsheet. The systems of regenerative farming and pasture centered lifestyles cultivate food that is abundantly safer than their mass-produced counterparts.��

10/15/2025

Chelsea explains what's special about Gelatin Jiggles!

Chelsea explains what makes our Gelatin Jiggles different from other broth-based supplements!

10/08/2025

RAW GOAT MILK KEFIR TEA

Raw goat milk kefir is a fermented dairy product made from goat milk and kefir grains. It is similar to yogurt but has a thinner consistency and a more diverse microbial profile. It is rich in calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and vitamins A and D, as well as Lactic Acid Bacteria, Acetic Acid Bacteria, and yeasts like Saccharomyces and Kluyveromyces.

Kefir is commonly used to address imbalances in the gut, particularly regarding yeast. Factors like antibiotic use, a high-sugar diet, weakened immune system, hormonal imbalances, and certain medical conditions can disrupt the normal microbiota, allowing Candida and other opportunistic yeasts to overgrow and cause symptoms such as rashes, hot spots, and other skin conditions - Tummy Butter Kefir is ideally situated to address these imbalances due to competitive inhibition: by supplying healthy yeast and bacteria to balance the gut, overgrown opportunistic yeasts will have fewer resources and space available, eventually coming back into balance with the rest of the body.

Tummy Butter Kefir is a manifestation of our belief in balance - solutions for health are about achieving harmony, not eradicating symptoms.

10/08/2025

How are our tinctures made?? Earl describes his process for gathering and percolating, and a little bit of the science involved.

https://youtu.be/g2DvqJJASPI

Earl, the man behind our Herbal Tinctures, discusses his process and a bit of the science involved ✌🏻

10/03/2025

There is so much noise - loud talking, loud machines, loud lights. Silence is a balm for the soul.

Of course, not complete silence. Birdsong. Chattering squirrels. Crunching gravel under your feet. Breathe deep of the life giving air.

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I well remember Grandpa’s farm,
When I was just so small;
I ran to do the barnyard chores
At Grandpa’s beck and call.

He’d let me taste the milk so sweet,
He’d always set aside
A special dish for all the cats—
Yes, Grandpa really tried.

He treated animals with care,
He knew them all by name;
Why, I recall one gentle cow—
He used to call her Mayme!

I frolicked in the hayloft high,
And swung upon the swing;
I fed the chickens every day,
What memories still cling.

He’d take me fishing in the creek,
We’d hunt for berries too;
What a delightful time we had,
When I was six plus two.

I well remember Grandpa’s farm,
I seem to see it yet;
Nostalgic memories fill my mind,
The kind I can’t forget.

09/30/2025

“Allergies” is an umbrella term for an extreme immune system reaction to external influences, such as foods or environmental factors. There are many common causes of allergies or allergy symptoms. We recommend working with your functional or holistic veterinarian for diagnosis. In order to achieve true healing, it is important to know the root cause of an illness.

• microbiome imbalance: leaky gut, yeast overgrowths, lack of bacterial diversity, and other issues that stem from the gut microbiome can present as allergy symptoms. Pets that are “allergic to everything!” are often dealing with this type of issue.

• heavy metal toxicity: many immune system functions can be disrupted by heavy metals. It is widely known that heavy metals bind to various micronutrients, causing deficiencies and storage issues that can manifest as allergy symptoms. Pet parents who have “tried everything” and had no success may be dealing with this.

• micronutrient imbalance: vitamins and minerals are responsible for regulating an immense number of biological functions. Balance is essential - too much or too little of any specific vitamin or mineral can lead to serious health issues, many of which manifest as allergies. This is most common with pets who get the majority of their micronutrients from synthetic sources and with DIY raw fed dogs.

• vaccinosis: adverse reactions to vaccines can trigger immune system responses that manifest as allergy symptoms. This is especially common in pets that have been over-vaccinated and can have serious long term consequences if the body is not purposefully detoxed.

• parasites: bites, saliva, or general infestation of external parasites can lead to skin problems (parasitic dermatitis) that is often confused with allergic dermatitis. Internal parasites can also stimulate allergy symptoms. Make sure that your pet is parasite free before assuming that their itchy skin is a food-related issue!

• hormone imbalance: many symptoms, such as discolored skin, abnormal weight gain, hot spots, and runny eyes, that are attributed to allergies can actually stem from imbalanced thyroid, adrenal, or reproductive hormones. This is another possible cause when a pet parent has “tried everything” but can’t find a solution.

There are a lot of great resources that can help you determine what the actual root cause of allergy symptoms are! Download our "Allergies & Leaky Gut Restorative Diet Guide" on our website (https://solutionspetproducts.com/restorative-health-guides/) to learn more ✌🏻